Motivational Quotes

God

God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.

- Stowell, Joseph

Best Quotes about God

EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. WeÆre looking for something, though weÆre not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.

Real Live Preacher

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

Paley, William

Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do.

Kempis, Thomas

Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.

Real Live Preacher

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Layton, Irving

Seek to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Maclaren, Alexander

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are -- more humane.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones.

Bussy-Rabutin, Comte De

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Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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God must become an activity in our consciousness.

Joel S. Goldsmith

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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Cioran, E. M.

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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

Cecil, Richard

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Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

Indian Proverb

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I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

Stone, Lucy

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Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.

Butterworth, Eric

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.

Einstein, Albert

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We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone.

Bai, Mira

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A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

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Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Euripides

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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

Williams, Ted

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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 4:29]

Bible

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Man does what he can, God does what he will.

Proverb

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All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

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I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

Sheen, Martin

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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.

Eckhart, Meister

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God is the name we give our conscience.

Shureih, Nader

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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.

Tozer, A. W.

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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

Agathon

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Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all.

Daly, Mary

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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

Williams, Tennessee

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The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

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If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

William Blake

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God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,

Heed, Wilfrid

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Each person, makes their own terrible passion their God.

Virgil

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The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Beckett, Samuel

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Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Flavius Josephus

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People do not know what the Name of God can do. Those who repeat it constantly alone know its power. It can purify our mind completely... The Name can take us to the summit of spiritual experience.

Ramdas, Swami

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When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

Meyer, F. B.

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I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

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God can only do for you what He can do through you.

Butterworth, Eric

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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Sir Julian Huxley

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If we really think about it, God exists for any single individual who puts his trust in Him, not for the whole of humanity, with its laws, its organizations, and its violence. Humanity is the demon which God does not succeed in destroying.

Satta, Salvatore

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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Irv Kupcinet

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God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.

Aughey, John H.

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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.

Wiesel, Elie